OTAGO TYPOGRAPHICAL ASSOCIATION AND THE AUCKLAND 'STAR.'

Evening Star, Issue 3854, 1 July 1875, Page 2

OTAGO TYPOGRAPHICAL ASSOCIATION AND THE AUCKLAND 'STAR.'

To the Editor. Sir,—A few more words and I shall return to my natural seclusion. Shades of Swift and Smollett save me from the scorpion stings of our Northern Momus ! I dare hardly lift my pen'after the crushing reply of this Auckland satirist. And so my .burst of indignation pierced the editorial skin; the shaft went home, and lo! the' venom flows forth with irresistible force upon my devoted head ! Not only is his skin penetrable, but lie is over sensi tive, for iu my wildest hope I did not imagine he would apply my remarks re the “ scum of the printing profession" to Ifim- But some people are so eccentric ! He expresses a doubt as to whether ho will ever get over my terrible denunciation; but I think he will, as he must be tolerably well, used to such mild reproofs. He will live to establish his infant typographical school, and get his reward for the same. Of course everybody can seo the disinterested efforts he is making for the advancement of the “gentler sex.” His object is not to obtain female labor because it is cheaper than that of the male—not at all. It is on purely philanthropic principles he is pursuing the noble course he has marked out; and to this noble course I leave him, in the hope that he will be more successful than tho many inferior men who have_ ridden the same hobby at Home. Whether it is desirable or not for females to don the trousers and forsake the domestic hearth for the less congenial life of a tradesman I leave to Dr Lyon Playfair and the Social Science Congress, in conjunction with the ‘ Auckland Star,’ to determine ; but I certainly object to the ‘ Star’s ’ funny writer accusing the printers down here of attempting to close the typographical school. I congratulate Auckland on its possession of such a splendid specimen of the gen vs homo as this writer appears to be, and trust that when the citizens erect a monument to his memory, it will be composed of something even less perishable than putty! _ But enough. I have neither the time nor the inclination to./eply to the scintillations of wit which appeared last night, and feel confident that those who wade through the telegram will consider that it bears its own reply. There is one strtement, however, I must flatly contradict. He says that the men who assisted to print the first sheets of the ‘ Star ’ are still in the office. This he knows is untrue; for the men have long left the office on account of the treatment- they received. Apologising for using so much space, I am, &c., E. J. LeGbove. Dunedin, June 30.